Sunless Sea — patch notes and updates
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| Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game | 2025-02-04 | Hello, delicious friends, Sunless Sea is turning 10 years old on the 6th of February, if you can believe it. And the game that originated the universe, the Zee, and every dreadful thing in it, Fallen London, is now 15! (Anyone making calculations about how old that makes us should probably just let that thought wink out like a false-star.) In celebration, Fallen London is getting a major adaptation for tabletop roleplaying, developed by Magpie Games. Magpie are the team behind Root, Avatar Legends, Urban Shadows, Bluebeard's Bride and many more wonderful games. We hope this development will excite those of you who have asked us down the years |
| Bug Fixing Patch v2.2.11.3212 | 2023-01-26 | Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes |
| Bug Fixing Patch v2.2.11.3212 | 2023-01-26 | Hello, zailors! Quick little update to fix the Steam auto cloud issue that's been bugging many of you. Full notes: Save files now load correctly via the Continue button on the title screen when the steamcloud_saving.vdf file is present The steamcloud_saving.vdf file will be automatically deleted when loading the game through non-Steam clients Buy 10 options have been added to Avernus/Naples for Fuel and Supplies Lots of typo and grammatical fixes Happy zailing! |
| WDC World Oceans Day Charity Sale | 2022-06-09 | We're delighted to offer Sunless Sea, Zubmariner and Sunless Skies in the World Oceans Day sale this year. If you're already a Sunless Sea player, this is an ideal opportunity to pick up Zubmariner at 50% off in the knowledge that any damage you do to our imagined unterzee-beasts can be metaphorically offset by our contribution to WDC. We'll be donating 30% of our net profits from the sale event to WDC to support their conservation work.* WDC is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins. WDC defends these remarkable creatures against the many threats they face by fighting to stop whaling, e |
| Mask of the Rose now has a demo! | 2022-02-10 | Today it’s been exactly a year since Mask of the Rose was funded on Kickstarter, and we've just released a demo of the first act, available right now on Steam! Offering a condensed version of Act I of Mask of the Rose, you’ll be able to explore select locations across Fallen London, introduce yourself to some key characters and encounter Mr Pages, one of the mysterious new Masters who have recently taken over London, in its office at the Bazaar. At the opening of Mask of the Rose, Mr Pages has employed your housemate, Griz, who has in turn found a few pennies’ work for you as census taker. The census goes some way beyond the expected (Surface |
| Mask of the Rose is now available to Wishlist on Steam | 2021-10-20 | You may have seen that we Kickstarted a new game in the same universe as Sunless Sea in February this year. Now we're pleased to announce that it has a shiny Steam page! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel, so somewhat different to Sunless Skies and Sunless Sea. However, it's set in the same universe, and brings all of our expertise in writing deep, surprising, meaningful stories, this time on a more personal level. Thanks to an unknown bargain, London now resides in a vast cavern under the earth. Down here, the sun doesn't shine, and Parliament has sunk into the Thames. Queen Victoria never emerges from her palace. Cats spy on their |
| Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition now has a release date! | 2021-04-28 | We’re glad to announce that Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will be released very soon, on Wednesday 19th May. This will be the first version of Sunless Skies we release on consoles, and will also be a free major update for everyone here on Steam! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/73d46eb56bd90aee3e1786f99f8dab82638a77f4.png This is a greatly enhanced edition of Sunless Skies, containing all additions and improvements we’ve made to the game since launch as well as many more completely new ones. Here's a link to the trailer! For the Sovereign Edition, we’ve reworked and extended the starvation mech |
| Announcing Our Next Game: Mask of the Rose | 2020-12-02 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/7b79f9c08ae05edf04af69d0e57555e9604c2dcb.png For a while now, we’ve been working on a couple of new projects. Today we’re very excited to announce the first of them! Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel and prequel to all our other games set in the Fallen London universe. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/QujJ4oVaFKI Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, mere months after London was stolen by bats. Londoners are still adjusting to life underground. The old street signs are being erased. New ministries and new festivals are being established. The mysterious M |
| Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition release update | 2020-04-09 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2da891519e90db186ed3321018178e7cf8b21f64.jpg Surprise! Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition is coming out for Switch on 23rd April and XBox One on the 24th! You may have heard that we’ve been working on console ports for Sunless Sea, and Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition. Initially we’d expected Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition to release for PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox One first, with Sunless Sea: Zubmariner Edition following. Schedules on both projects have moved around a bit, meaning the release dates are now as follows: Sunless Sea comes to Switch on 23rd April Sunless Sea comes |
| 10 Years of Fallen London! | 2020-01-09 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/61191a447a1cedc0f12928698adbb152fe4817a3.png If you've played Sunless Sea or Sunless Skies, you might be familiar with Fallen London! Fallen London is a text-based browser game set in a subterranean city inhabited by Victorian Londoners, talking rats, and people with the faces of squids. In the last decade, it’s grown from a handful of stories to a 2.5-million word epic with tens of thousands of monthly players. We’d like to think that it’s remained popular for the kinds of stories we offer. Not just the weird, inventively horrifying world, but the fact that you get t |
| Sunless Games in the Winter Sale | 2019-12-20 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/1860dee8b3cffae12467098f0ff56f8cc9a0fc8f.jpg The longest nights of the year are upon us: the perfect time to lose yourself in the dark of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies! (With apologies to the southern hemisphere; they do play equally well in summer.) Sunless Skies has a recent review score of 95% positive, and has been named a game of the year by The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Yorker, Kotaku AU, Paste and Slant. It's 50% off in the sale! Sunless Sea is also 95% positive, with 66% off in the sale, and its expansion Zubmariner is also reduced, by 60% - it really |
| Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition | 2019-10-19 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/807200aede1abda3b4585c3ef1f5efc93d354679.png Sunless Skies: Soveriegn Edition will be released for PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in the first half of 2020! Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition will include new content and various improvements, and will be released on PC at the same time as on console. Players who already own the game on PC will receive the Sovereign Edition for free. It's been a great year for Sunless Skies, thanks to your support, and we're delighted to be able to celebrate it with this enhanced edition. What's new in the Sovereign Edition? Here's ou |
| See you at PAX West! | 2019-07-18 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/2d844d3cbc8a4782d36d1c16cab7dfede44e3a27.png We're delighted that Sunless Skies has been chosen as one of the ten best indie games of the year by the mysterious and influential PAX 10 panel! It's a huge honour to be selected, and it means that we're able to make a rare US event appearance at PAX West in Seattle, from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September. We'll have as many pin badges as we can cram into our suitcases. Will we see you there? |
| #loveindies returns in June! | 2019-05-07 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/30f1ed60ed0ade4d9f2abfade174660d8b5a9457.png We're delighted to bring you another #loveindies celebration! #loveindies is a chance for players and developers of indie games to share their favourites with one another, discover some new games to play, and raise up games which deserve more attention. This year it'll be two weeks long, from the 3rd to the 14th of June in response to the excitement over last year's event. We've also introduced the #loveindies Review Hour, a global push to leave as many reviews on indie games as we can in one hour! #loveindies is open to al |
| LudoNarraCon is coming! | 2019-05-02 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11789502/8f347b8ecd7ce7880a2ad550846ef5186f4bbe39.png We're honoured to be taking part in the first ever LudoNarraCon! LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, taking place right here on Steam. All the fun of discovering new games without the barriers of access to a physical event! From 10th to 13th May, developers from across the world will showcase their work in a celebration of interesting and innovative narrative games. This felt like a great idea to us, and we're so pleased to be selected to take part. We'll be showcasing Sunless Skies with |
| Sunless Skies is out now! | 2019-02-12 | Sunless Skies, our follow-up to Sunless Sea, is now available! Sunless Skies has had, by some way, the best ever critical reception of our games. It's been called “Failbetter’s finest hour” by PC Gamer, “Terrifying and exhilarating” by PCGamesN, “Essential” by Eurogamer and “A triumph” by Gamespot. And at the time of writing we're at 87 on Metacritic, putting us right below a few little known games in their 2019 rankings called, umm, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends, and Resident Evil 2? Needless to say, we’re intensely grateful and delighted. Sunless Skies is doing very well for us commercially, too. Far better than we needed it to do. We occasi |
| The Launch Trailer for Sunless Skies is here! | 2019-01-24 | It's one week until SUNLESS SKIES releases from Early Access! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/be08df1bbc653d1430c1ece0591da849c53fdf2c.png Discover what awaits you in the High Wilderness in the new launch trailer It's been two years since the Kickstarter for SUNLESS SKIES, and we are so proud of the game that we've made. It's got all of the delicious stories you've come to expect from us, but - hopefully - in a game that's a more well-rounded experience. Find out more about SUNLESS SKIES on its Steam page! We hope you'll join us, and can't wait to hear what you think. See you in the Heavens, Failbett |
| SUNLESS SKIES will release in two weeks! | 2019-01-17 | Hello, delicious friends. You might remember we've been working on a follow-up to Sunless Sea. It's due out in two weeks, and we're so excited to see what you think! Take a look at Sunless Skies! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/f13868421bef97768b63bfbe174ef6878d03ab9c.gif If you've just joined us from the Daily Deal: welcome! We hope you're enjoying our deep, dark and marvellous stories. If you would like some help getting started, try the discussion forums here, r/sunlesssea or our lovely Discord. We remain, your friends, Failbetter Games |
| The Sunless Sea Halloween Sale | 2018-10-30 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6170016/e6ebcf0395dfc5e0b6a7338f74e0285febec11c6.png Get in the spooky spirit this Halloween by voyaging out into a deep, dark zee teeming with misfortune and filled to the brim with zee-beasts! And if you've already confident above the waves, why not try diving to their terrifying depths in the extensive expansion, Zubmariner? If you’ve been itching to try Sunless Sea, here or on a different platform, now’s your chance! Steam (29 Oct - 1 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%) GOG (29 Oct - 5 Nov): Sunless Sea (66%) and the Zubmariner expansion (33%) iPad ( |
| Ever wanted to role play in our universe? | 2018-09-22 | We've just released a free pen and paper RPG. It's called SKYFARER. We made it for you. We hope you like it. Find out more Download a copy SUNLESS SKIES will be released from Early Access on 31 January 2019. Until then, we remain your friends, Failbetter Games |